(THE CONVERSATION) Every day, your immune system performs a delicate balancing act, defending you from thousands of pathogens that cause disease while sparing your body’s own healthy cells. This ...

Here are 5 simple meal ideas to boost your child's immune system using healthy ingredients like spinach, chickpeas, and beetroot for better health.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our ...

The discovery of cells that prevent the immune system from hurting the body is paving the way for new treatments for autoimmune diseases and cancer.

Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi discovered cells that protect the body from autoimmune diseases.

Professor Elliot Long explains why sepsis in children is difficult to diagnose, with nearly 10% of cases missed in emergency rooms despite being treatable.

With September comes back to school season and the return of 'sick season', with that in mind a Paediatric Dietitian shares the top foods to sneak into kids lunches and how to get them to eat them ...

Just as a computer's operating system can be rewritten after a major update, dengue infection can "re-program" the body's immune system, leaving a long-lasting genetic imprint that influences how ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When the first cells appeared on Earth approximately 3.8 billion years ago, viruses were already here to greet them. Ever since, viruses have been devising ways to infect cells, and ...

The immune system can be a double-edged sword; we need it to protect us from pathogens and aberrant cells, but if it is not carefully regulated it can cause serious harm to the body as well. When the ...